I love the way the dwarfs head straight for the mountain. Classic, could make up so many funny jokes about that. Anyways, this aside, i have one main point to say.
We should choose one site and stick to it for week one.
The reasoning behind this is:
1. Although there are a good few people in this topic posting thier support, there are going to be a lot more players elsewhere who arent a member of this site. Hmm, think ill be able to describe this more easily via maths. Say that the uk members of this site are representative of 5% (to get a better idea someone can count number of people who posted in this thread) of uk empire generals. If we spread our forces over 3 locations this goes down to 1.66% in each location, basically making the results insignificant. However, if all 5% are in one region, this will be noticed (i.e. have more significance) and will have better effect on the final outcome of that location.
2. It keeps things very very simple.
Simplicity is good as the plans have a greater chance of being successful as there is less to go wrong. Its kind of hard to mess up when you see on this site in big letters "week 1, post all battles at Egendorf"
To be honest, id much rather have a more complex plan as its more fun, however experiance has taught me that this only works if there is a large group of very active people who are all in good comunication with each other. And from the looks of things there are probably around 30 people in this forum topic, which isnt small, but its not huge either. If there were 100 people then things would be a bit different, but there is still would be the other two issues to deal with. These are player activity and communication.
Now within this group of around 30 people im guessing the activity level is going to be about average. Most of us have lives of some sort or another outside of warhammer and so playing a 2000 pt game every day is probably a no no. Personally if i tried hard, i could play around one 500pt game a day (on average) and say one 2000 point game a week.
Finally theres comunication. Now communication via forums is always a slow process.At its best, realistically, im guessing everyone can log in once a day for 5 minutes. This means that if there is a change of plan, some time needs to be given before it can be carried out. (average log in times are probably once every 2/3 days.)
Other things. Mark Perry, i really liked your fluff post, i like your writing style, it made a good read.
Fluff wise, I basically have two forces, my 500 point force led by Captain Luitdorf (first name George) (which will do most of the fighting) and my 2000 point force led by one of the officers of the reiskguard. (normally this is Old kurty, but not gonna use him in campaign as not very fluffy.) Might post up some fluff later.